CIMIT Young Clinician Awards

The Young Clinician Research Award recognizes outstanding clinicians within CIMIT Consortium eligible hospitals, early in their careers, who are engaged in the development of transformative innovations in healthcare delivery workflows enabled by novel, interoperable medical technologies. Those eligible include clinical researchers such as Fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors.

The Young Clinician Research Award Program has been a tremendous success within the Boston community. To date, there have been 26 award recipients, with significant outcomes for advancing healthcare and careers.

Each award is worth $50,000. Applicants must be nominated by site miners from the CIMIT consortium member hospitals. One clinician from each of CIMIT’s member hospitals is selected each year to receive this prestigious award. Through CIMIT’s network of site miners, we are able to quickly identify rising stars among our clinical research community to provide a much needed catalyst for these young scientists developing breakthrough medical technologies.

Those eligible include clinical researchers early in their careers, such as Fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors who are engaged in the development of transformative innovations in healthcare delivery workflows enabled by novel, interoperable medical technologies.

2010 Award Focus:

Innovations that reduce care fragmentation within and across care environments by:

Class of 2007

Audrey Chung Marshall, MD: Children’s Hospital Boston
Positioning device to enable minimally invasive, in utero, cardiac intervention for babies with congenital heart disease

Michael J. Davidson, MD: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Percutaneous repair of damaged heart valves, without the need for open-heart surgery

Daniel S. Kohane, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Developing controlled release technology to prevent problems caused by breathing tubes in premature babies

James Ellsmere, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Novel device to effectively manage care of patients after gastric surgery to control obesity

Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Local drug delivery device for lung cancer patients that could minimize surgical resection of normal lung tissue and possibly prevent the spread or recurrence of cancer

Class of 2008

Carlos R. Estrada, MD: Children’s Hospital Boston
Novel functional bladder tissue engineering with silk scaffolds

Alexandra Golby, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Functional and structural imaging to optimize brain tumor resection

Faisal Merchant, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Novel method to guide RF ablation of atrial fibrillation

Stephanie Morris, MD: Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Expanding techniques in ovarian cryopreservation and transplantation for female cancer patients

Ashish Nimgaonkar, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Endoluminal magnetic resonance imaging for improved detection and characterization of pancreatic lesions

Satish Singh, MD: Boston University Medical Center
Optically-guided biopsy tools for dysplasia detection during gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Class of 2009

Claire Cronin, MD, MBA: Newton Wellesley Hospital
Novel 3D reconstruction breast pathology reporting systems

Marilyn L. Moy, MD: VA Boston Healthcare System
A novel system to monitor physical activity and associated physiological responses in the home environment with application to patients with COPD

Harald Ott, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Myocardial regeneration based on perfusion decellularized cardiac matrix scaffolds

Robert Riviello, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Innovative wound care technology for low-income settings

Jennifer E. Rosen, MD: Boston Medical Center
Optically guided differential diagnosis in thyroid nodules

Joan Spiegel, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
A novel pressure-sensing syringe for improved airway management

Gerhard Wolf, MD: Children’s Hospital Boston
Development of continuous non-invasive imaging at the bedside to optimize ventilation of critically ill children

Class of 2010

Joel Auslander, MD: Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Evaluation of Hospitalist Handoff Communications

Jay Berry, MD, MPH: Children’s Hospital Boston
Web-based Integrated Care Plan to improve illness management for children with complex medical needs

Matt T. Bianchi, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Novel home monitoring approaches to insomnia diagnosis and treatment

Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Innovative Aspects of the Mount Pleasant PCMH (Patient-Centered Medical Home) Demonstration

Adam B. Cohen, MD: Partners HealthCare
Specialty Consultation and Triaging

Shoshana Herzig, MD, MPH: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Reducing Medication use fragmentation across transitions in care

Kumaran Kolandaivelu, MD, PhD: VA Boston Healthcare System
Develop objective & standardized tool for screening patients for medication adherence — biochemical assay of compliance

C. Jason Wang, MD, PhD: Boston Medical Center
Technology to advance children’s health (TeACH) to support personalized care for preterm very-low-birth weight infants (VLBW< 1500g)

5.3.06
CIMIT Announces Recipients of the 2007 Young Clinician Research Awards
Five physicians will be among the first CIMIT-Johnson & Johnson Young Clinician Research Award recipients. The funding was made possible through the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT).

Key Dates
Call for Nominations	June 20, 2010
Deadline for Nominations	September 15, 2010